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Author Cavadino, Michael, 1953-

Title Criminal justice 2000 : strategies for a new century / Michael Cavadino, Iain Crow, James Dignan
Published Winchester : Waterside Press, 1999

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 W'PONDS  364.942 Cav/Cjt 2000  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  364.942 Cav/Cjt 2000  AVAILABLE
Description x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Criminal policy series
Waterside Press criminal policy series.
Contents Preface / by Andrew Rutherford -- Introduction : 'I didn't get where I am today' -- Back to basics -- Sentencing strategies for a new century? -- Punishment and the community -- Imprisonment : the hard cell -- Just fine? (Or, never underestimate the power of a crisp packet) -- Young offenders : tough on youth? -- Into the millenium
Summary This key addition to Waterside's Criminal Policy contains many valuable insights into criminal policy-making in Britain - a process typified in recent years by political manoeuvring, irreconcilable sentencing aims, a lack of coherence and divisive attitudes, including, so the authors argue, attempts at reform being undermined through 'judicial independence'). A first-rate analysis of the competing strategies by three of the UK's leading commentators - which proceeds from a restorative justice standpoint and is rapidly establishing itself as a key text for criminal justice and criminal policy courses across the UK. Ever since Jack Straw replaced Michael Howard as British Home Secretary in May 1997, the New Labour government has been taking the criminal justice system in new directions. But what is the nature of New Labour criminal justice policy? What strategic options does the government really have for dealing with the problems of crime and punishment-and where is it likely to take us in future? This timely book analyses past and present policies in British criminal justice and distills a set of three broad options for the future. Strategy A is the futile, expensive and doomed quest to control crime by ever-increasing levels of harsh punishment. Strategy B is the managerial, bureaucratic approach which tries to achieve maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Strategy C is the principled approach which seeks to protect the human rights of both offenders and victims by means such as rehabilitation, reintegration and restorative justice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Corrections -- Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- England.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.
Justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.
Punishment -- Great Britain.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- England.
Author Crow, Iain.
Dignan, James.
LC no. 00361517
ISBN 1872870775 (paperback)
Other Titles Strategies for a new century